The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-02-24


Favor Of Overriding the Presidents Veto.
The report was q unanimous one. Five
members Of the committee were selected az
a subcommittee to draft the report These
five members divided the presidents mes
sage into five separate chapters and each one
prepared au answer to each chapter Then
the contributions of the Ave members were
arranged in "a harmonious whole The re.
port states:
Two facts will arrest tho attention of anv one
who reads the presidents message The FIRST is
that no objection Is made to tho bill on anv
ground OF its constitutionality and the right Of
congress to enact the law is not questioned,
The other is that the first section Of the bill /.
not touched upon by the messageand no intima-
lion Is given by the president as to whether that
an independent proposition. and in the pre-
c CT , form specially urged, by the secretary
report, meets with his approval or disapproyai.
The committee then analyses the objections Of
the president that the bill is vague in its provi-
dsabt ,na q, appy to grades OF
judgment of the house and country that those
who framed the bill after months Of careful
have confined the bill to class that
can be we'll defined as consisting Of
t those ,t Totally ~ disabled o. dependent On
strained Interpretation put on the bill in the
message as an excuse rath her than q reason for
returning it to the house and believe we do no
whole message. to say that if its provisions had
been plain and no question could have been
o ony hoss unable ao whether ne it
not have interposed his ob1e ,tfons.
The acts OF the president tho committee cannot
believe viii be endorsed anywhere by the patri-
otto sentiment OF this country" Referring to
tho expenditures of money which the enact
ment Of this bill into the law would nccessisate.
the committee contends that the estimate Of
AZ Init tl,ot
consideration OF possible cost shall be allowed
come between dependent soldiers and the relief
they are entitled to receive from the country
which they helped to save Reducing the whole
question to ole OF money exped1ency 1t seemed
to the committee that the surplus in the treas
nry can ne nes1 restored to the people in tho
est or hugo monopoly could claim the money
for its own. 1t would 70 to the people in small
amounts and would circulate among them. The
hand. Protests against it had only
from money centers where ALL the money
worse than wasted. The committee submitted
that the general tone OF the message was to DO
fairly taken as expressive in advance Of the
to prevent any further legislation that would
add any new class to the pension list or matcri-
ally increase the cost thereof based on the
fast that that the country was against,
it. The committee was aware that there was a
sentiment Of that kind, but insisted that
it was not controlling enc. The committee
was IOCn 10 DelleVe thaL the people OF the cOun-
Try were willing for the defenders Of the nations
honor, and live to live during their declining
years In misery and want. On the contrary it
believed that the people would prefer that those
who made the laws should err on the side OF
mercy rather than on the side OF too rigid
economy in the expenditures of the public
money IN this direction, and it further believed
that IT more taxes, or diff
erent kind Of taxes was necessary to
meet this demand. they, would be cheer
to these views Of our duties aS lepislatcre and
with . cheerful Willingness to answer here and
elsewhere the results of honest labors to re-
country, in any section of it, coming as they do
from many wars in which we havo been engaged.
and with every confidence OF n right verdict
upon the whole matter, we submit our bill again
for the Judgment OF the house, aud ask for it
the most rigid criticism, believing it will tend
to strengthen. rather than to weaken it. We
recommend, without dissenting voice in this
committee. that the bill do pass, notwithstand-
ing the objections of the president.